VMware Cloud Foundation Quick Hits

SDDC Manager will manage the lifecycle of the different components of VCF and can also manage the lifecycle of “add-ons” like VMware Horizon, VMware vRealize Suite, vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight.

Licensing is per-CPU but you’ll need to contact your reseller about how to buy it as while you can’t buy “SDDC manager” on its own you can reuse existing licenses for VCF – and vCenter isn’t included in VCF.

You can buy VCF pre-installed on VxRack or just buy vSAN Ready hardware and roll your own. You’ll want to check your switches against the VCF HCL also.

Who should buy VCF: anyone who wants vSphere/vSAN/NSX but doesn’t want to install the components themselves or manage patching them.